Name: What It’s Like to Grow Up in an Israeli Settlement | Op-Docs
Uploaded: 2020-04-13T17:19:35.000Z
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In 2016, I decided to say goodbye to Tel Aviv

that I disagree with the most: the settlers.

Since Israel's ongoing military occupation

Jewish settlers have moved to the Palestinian territories

As Israeli society polarizes around views

of the occupation, I found myself increasingly

I ended up in one of the oldest Israeli settlements,

it is a world apart, isolated in the Judean hills

I rented a small apartment on the corner of Hospitality

And I thought to myself, these are two things

After all, it's not every day that a liberal from Tel Aviv

Once I settled in, to make myself feel more at home,

I set up a small cafe and waited for company.

Well, apparently coffee is not in demand in Tekoa,

For a while, it seemed like the only locals

who visited my table were flies, a cat, and my only

a moderate settlement, the Jewish settlement

It seems like we grew up in totally different worlds.

While I knew Palestinians come in and out of the settlements

every day to work, building more of the buildings

that they will never be allowed to live in,

that represent their oppression with my own eyes

Her uncensored lack of political correctness

Despite a peace and love and the hippie vibe of Tekoa,

attacked in the shooting ambush, killing her father,

and leaving her mother and two siblings wounded.

when she first got the message tore my heart apart.

She was four months pregnant at the time.

were honest about the negative effect of the settlements

I wondered how they still choose to live here.

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